First you don't use the wizards <G>.  You do it via the control panel.  But 
you are correct - XP is a mess.  They even munged up file sharing setup in 
this version and they split the domain name out of the control 
panel/network setup and moved it into the control panel/system!

Michael Hipp wrote:

> David A. Bandel wrote:
>> XP is so frustrating, the first time I saw it at a
>> clients' site, 20 minutes later I gave up trying to figure out how the
>> fsck to configure networking (the twisty maze of incoherent questions in
>> the networking wizard had me so confused I just told the client they
>> were on their own).  106+ Operating Systems use ifconfig and route.  So
>> naturally, those don't exist on Windoze.  Just how the hell _do_ you
>> configure networking on XP?
> 
> 
> Hehe. I thought it was just me. Only MS could take something so simple
> and totally mess it up.
> 
> Michael

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